On 11/21/2013 10:38 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 11/21/2013 10:35 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> as I don't see it as specific to rm. >> I.E. other tools like chmod etc would have the same requirement, >> and they might be handled with various shell globbing constructs. >> Even more generally find(1) could be used to handle arbitrarily >> many files and commands that don't support recursion internally. >> >> Could you explain why rm would get this and say chmod would not? > > Ideally, any command that implements recursion should have the option to > operate on children only. You are correct that rm should not be special > in this regards, so yes, I think chmod should also get it.
Which says that maybe gnulib's fts module needs a new flag for recursion without visiting the root node, rather than adding ad-hoc root node exclusion into all clients. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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